The more than two-mile-wide surge which had converged into the Spring Creek Drainage Basin continued eastward, but slowed somewhat as it got east of College Avenue. Presumably, the massive detention areas were having their effect. Nevertheless, the surge pushed Spring Creek more than 100' out of its banks in places. The body of one of the flood victims was discovered nearly 75' away from the creek channel, on a shed southwest of Prospect and Lemay. Firefighters driving PFA engine #2 (approximately 20 tons) report that they encountered a Sports Utility Van at about 11:45 p.m. on the bridge over Spring Creek at Welsh Street (just east of Lemay Avenue). The water "shuffled" their engine slightly as they drove out to rescue the trapped couple.
Deep water reached the eastern exit of the Spring Creek basin at a little after midnight. On the huge campus of the Advanced Energy Corporation a senior engineer for facilities was on scene when the deep water arrived. He says that when he first checked the situation at about 11:45 p.m. the roads were completely dry, but between 12:00 and 12:15 a.m., water began to come in from the west. At first it was only a couple of inches deep, but within 10 minutes a "level-two," white-water river was running between the buildings. It wrapped a car around a light post, and flooded three of the companies four structures (more than 100,000 sq. ft. in total). Water depths in the low spots ranged from 4 to 8 feet, and more than $3 million in damage occurred. The last known damage caused by the surge (before it left the city) was when it washed into a farm east of Advanced Energy, pinning several cows against a fence. The cattle were drowned.